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Dr. Carl DuPont, assistant professor of voice, will participate in the Young Artists Program at Glimmerglass Festival this summer. Founded in 1975, Glimmerglass Festival is a highly regarded summer opera and musical theatre festival in Cooperstown, NY. The Young Artists Program was founded in 1988 to provide training and experience for talented artists in the […]

UNC Charlotte theatre alumna Stacey Rose has been named a 2017-18 Many Voices Fellow by The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis, MN. Founded in 1994, the Many Voices Fellowship is for early-career writers of color and provides recipients with financial and administrative support and introductions to theater leaders in the Twin Cities and Chicago. Two fellows […]

UNC Charlotte College of Arts + Architecture’s Tactical Urbanism Class has partnered with the Charlotte Department of Transportation (CDOT), and First Ward Elementary and the Charlotte Lab School on a project to promote urban vitality and safe pedestrian behavior along the walkways that connect the elementary schools and UNC Charlotte Center City. On Friday, May […]

The College of Arts + Architecture is pleased to announce the recent decisions by the UNC Charlotte Board of Trustees on the following personnel actions: Promotion from Associate Professor to Full Professor Ms. Heather Freeman (Department of Art & Art History) Dr. John Allemeier (Department of Music) Dr. Randal Haldeman (Department of Music) Promotion from […]

Dr. Lee Gray, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Architecture, was featured in a segment on National Public Radio’s Here & Now, which aired April 18. The segment, “What’s the most efficient way to ride an escalator?” began with a discussion of a study done by the London Underground on the most […]

A series of conference presentations by Associate Professor of Piano Dylan Savage demonstrates the many connections between music performance and the fields of data analytics, STEM, and corporate training and entrepreneurship. Dr. Savage’s research in the areas of biomechanics at the keyboard and entrepreneurship for musicians has long been presented in conservatory masterclasses and music […]

Some 30 students from the College of Arts + Architecture, the College of Computing and Informatics, and the College of Engineering are designing and fabricating statement pieces, costumes, and garments that will be worn by professors and friends at the first annual Statement Making, a fashion show to be held Thursday, April 27, in the […]

UNC Charlotte art student William Lee won a public art commission from the City of Charlotte GovPorch project to create an interactive installation at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center Plaza on Fourth Street. Lee’s installation, “Resonances,” is made of wood, steel cable, and electrical metallic tubing and is inspired by Gandhi’s concept of communal harmony and […]

The UNC Charlotte Chamber Orchestra will present “Symphony of Diversity” on Thursday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Belk Theater, Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts. Led by Director of Orchestras Jonathan Govias, the concert is a celebration of the diversity of thought, background, life experience, culture, ethnicity, and orientation that exists in American society. […]

James Borden’s Time and Space: A Hickory Museum of Art Loan The lobby of UNC Charlotte’s Robinson Hall for the Performing Arts is the new home for a remarkable 20-foot wooden clock sculpture, Time and Space, installed by the artist James Borden on April 19 and 20. Time and Space is on long-term loan to […]